"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh

Monday, June 5, 2017

More rowdy hijinks from those whimsical Allah-botherers

ISIS jihadists attack a Catholic church in the Philippines, and a Muslim (possibly not ISIS, but does it really matter any more?) attacks a priest at a wedding ceremony in Spain (Update: And let's not overlook Australia - H/T to friend and commenter Bruce, in the comments).

9 comments:

bruce
said...

Another Ramadan killing in Australia being 'treated as terror':http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/brighton-terror-threefer/news-story/c5154b4c169a5e97bf174ec423558a48

Chatted to 2 young police yesterday. They were itching to kill some terrorists, and they're expecting to get a chance soon. They gave a talk at the local Uni, some lady academic asked how they shoot, to wound? Off with the fairies they said. Aim for centre of body mass. 'If I take out this gun it's to kill'. Different protocols to your guys maybe, they carry tasers and stuff too. Mind you then he told me he had his gun out a few times and no mention of shooting. Young cops talk too much!

Most US cops carry lethal (i.e., firearms) and non-lethal weapons (e.g., Tasers). Some idiots are trying to implement the use of non-lethal ammunition as the primary load for cops, of course. Thus far a small number of agencies have done so, and the majority use Taser in limited conditions. The general rule, "Aim for the center of mass"; some advocate double tapping.

However, the REAL disarming of cops comes from the politicians who support "Black Lives (don't) Matter", and prosecute regardless of the circumstances. This is helped not at all by rogue cops who are trigger happy and/or horribly under trained.

That's a good way of expressing it RebeccaH. Maybe that's what my cop meant.

Meanwhile, the problem out here is a lack of accuracy when needed (in the US you practice a lot so may be less likely to fumble like this):

'The London Met police are bragging about their “8 minutes to respond and kill” in the last incident. What they aren’t bragging about is that it took them 50 bloody rounds to take down 3 guys and in the process they shot at least one civilian in the head. For well trained tactical shooters that’s about 40 rounds too many and those guys are supposed to be the best of the London cops.' (online comment on a Forum).

At our Lindt Cafe seige one hostage death was due to cop fire too. Somewhere they will be furiously practicing to overcome that, but practice and reality always diverge.